Jeremiah 16:6

So shall great and small die in this land, They shall not be buried,—Neither shall men lament for them Nor cut themselves, Nor make themselves bald for them;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

In Context

5For, Thus, saith Yahweh—Do not thou enter into the house of crying, Neither do thou go to lament, nor do thou bemoan for them,—For I have withdrawn my blessing from this people, Declareth Yahweh, Both lovingkindness and compassion.

7Neither shall they break bread to them in mourning To console one over his dead,—Nor cause them to drink the cup of consolation, Over one’s father Or over one’s mother;

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:28Cuttings for a dead person, shall ye not make in your flesh. And punctures in your persons, shall ye not print,—I, am Yahweh.

Isaiah 9:14Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel—Head and tail Palm-top and rush, In one day.

Isaiah 24:2And it shall be—As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress,—As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor.

Jeremiah 8:2And shall spread them out—To the sun, and To the moon, and To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,—They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.

Jeremiah 16:4Of deaths from diseases, shall they die, They shall not be lamented, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they serve,—Yea by sword and by famine, shall they be consumed, And, their dead bodies shall become, food—To the bird of the heavens, and To the beast of the earth.

Jeremiah 41:5that men came in from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,—eighty men, with beards shaven and clothes rent who also had cut themselves, with a meal-offering and frankincense in their hand, to bring them into the house of Yahweh.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 16:2-10

Prohibitions Given to Jeremiah. ( b. c. 605.) 1 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung… Read the whole commentary →

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